24. Conventions are customary, and all beasts are frightened
Vigilant, he jumped onto a thick branch, and when he looked up and down, he found some clues.
There were traces of dragging on the forest floor, and there were a few blood stains on the ground, as well as a broken rough log not far away, and a horizontal knife left on the ground.
Qu Tao frowned, he could see far away from a distance, until the end of his sight, where there were still mountains and forests, but he could see a direction clearly.
"Is this the work of some beast? No, probably not, the trail disappeared in less than a foot, at first dragging, and then apparently picking up the man, but there was no sign of movement in the distance. ”
Jump down from the thick branch and go up to take a closer look.
"At least this beast isn't slow, and it's very dexterous, do you want to go up and have a look?"
He was unsure for a while, but finally gritted his teeth and decided to go forward to investigate.
It has nothing to do with curiosity, those two have nothing to do with him, but they are in the same town, and now it seems that those two must be more than lucky, and there are no more two lonely widows in the town.
This is the life of the man in the town, maybe he will die in the mountains and forests one day, if the body is intact, then find it and bring it back, if it is really not possible, bring back the relics.
This is also a common convention in the town.
After making up his mind, he no longer hesitated, picked up the horizontal knife, weighed it in his hand a little, felt that the weight was very light, not as heavy as the firewood knife he used, tied it with a long whip and carried it on his back, and followed the traces forward.
In a short time he had traveled two or three miles, which was in the opposite direction, opposite to what he had gone before.
Ahead is a cliff, and the strange rocks under the cliff are craggy, and one side is steep, cutting off the road ahead, which seems to be caused by the cracking of this mountain, and half of it has collapsed.
The subtle traces were broken here, and he looked up to see that the cliff was vertical, and there were only a few protrusions that could be climbed with strength, and if he wanted to think of the back of the cliff, he would have to detour for miles.
Needless to say, I can only climb.
Qu Tao uses both hands, his body is extremely flexible, like a spirit monkey jumping between mountains and rocks, a jump is several zhang, there is indescribable dexterity.
The height of dozens of zhang, in the blink of an eye, under the improvement of the swift attribute, the speed is naturally extremely fast.
When you come to the top of the mountain, you can see that the distant mountains and rivers are pleasant, but there is a hidden murderous motive in them.
I didn't have time to think about this, but after a little investigation, I saw some subtleties, a shallow paw print was found by him, which seemed to be the mark left by a beast, and the paw print was as big as his head.
The other footprint is two feet away.
"In other words, is this thing two feet in one step? a man running upright, or is it some kind of ape?"
This span is not small, except for the white wolf, so far he has not encountered a beast of this level in the mountains and forests, so he has to be careful.
Qu Tao was cautious, avoiding all the crises along the way, and every time he walked dozens of feet, he would stop and use his listening to the wind and farsightedness to cooperate with the investigation.
After walking for another two miles, the effect of rapid attribute improvement disappeared, and Qu Tao, who was running rapidly, only felt that his body suddenly slowed down, and the previous feeling of being like a fish in water disappeared, and his speed became normal.
He frowned, and secretly said that it was really not the right time for this effect to disappear.
The mountains and forests here are still luxuriant, with rows of thick trees and towering greenery, and it seems that the deeper you go, the denser the thick trees become, and the vegetation around you is more numerous.
I can't say that there are any precious yams or the like here, but it's a pity that Qu Tao's mind is not on this.
Carefully move forward, cut off a small snake casually, and when you see that there are no cards bursting out, you look ahead.
There is a bare hill in front of it standing abruptly, the hill is not high, it is not big, it is only a dozen zhang of appearance, the whole body is yellow, but it looks like a dirt bag piled up by countless mountain stones.
There were blood stains at the foot of the mountain, and there were scattered pieces of cloth, and Qu Tao saw a horizontal knife not far away stuck obliquely into the ground, and the knife was stained with blood.
He carefully hid himself and slowly stepped forward.
At this moment, a stout figure jumped up on the hill, covered in black hair, and the person stood up, beating his chest with both hands, and he made a bang, like a drum, and roared wildly in the sky.
It was a giant ape, two feet tall.
"Roar!"
It was as if a thunderclap was blowing in my ears, and the surrounding trees were shaken off the leaves.
"Oh no, it's been discovered!"
Qu Tao was startled, and hurriedly retreated.
The beast's roar shook violently, and he could tell that it was the third roar of the previous night, and it was the same as the beast's roar he had heard when he slain the great worm.
"Whew!"
In the distance, the mountains and forests followed with a roar.
"Wow!"
Birds of prey descended from the sky, flapping their wings and whipping up the wind.
"Woo......"
A long chirp sounded everywhere, from far to near.
"Damn, are the beasts frightened?"
Qu Tao was shocked, but he was even more reluctant to stay, in this case, in his state at this time, he could only escape.
The beasts around gradually gathered, and in an instant the entire mountain forest seemed to come to life, full of noise and restlessness, the beasts were gathering, and the fierce roar of the giant ape was like a command, so that these beasts listened to the order and chased after Qu Tao.
"Wow!"
A falcon spread its wings, its whole body was blue, and it suddenly descended from the sky, like a sharp arrow, and struck straight at him.
"Qingyu Eagle, how can this thing listen to orders, doesn't it mean that this thing is extremely arrogant?"
Qu Tao saw the attacking raptor clearly, and immediately frowned.
The eagle's claws were like dry bones, like made of stainless steel, and the black pointed armor at the front end was even sharper, Qu Tao had no doubt that ordinary people were caught, and there must be a few blood holes.
Can't stop!
He heard the movement in the distance behind him, and expected that there must be a lot of fierce beasts chasing him, although he was glad that the giant ape was not chasing for the time being, but he couldn't be distracted in the slightest.
"Whew!"
The cold light is cold, and it stops at a moment.
In an instant, the strength of others, the huge slash played a role at this moment, even if the green feather eagle was fierce, the pair of iron claws were also broken under this slash.
"Wow!"
The blue-feathered eagle was in pain and wanted to pull up its body.
But at this moment, Qu Tao had already jumped up suddenly, landed on its back, and when it flew high, the silver light flashed, and the incomparably sharp chai knife directly slashed off its eagle's head, and then clasped its wings with both hands, shook twice, and glided away with it.
Qu Tao was not flustered at this time, and took the opportunity to look back, the nearest beast was less than seven feet behind him.
At this moment, another roar was heard, and then a strong black figure jumped up, stepped over several feet, and fell towards the place where he was.
He hurriedly shook his eagle's wings twice more and turned in one direction.
Yu Guang saw a white light on the headless eagle corpse under him, and then gathered into a white card, and he didn't have time to think about it before he directly took it into his arms.
At this time.
The black figure has arrived.
"Boom!"
The eagle's corpse was smashed by the giant palm and turned into a rain of blood and rotten flesh.
Qu Tao had already jumped away from the eagle corpse at the moment when the giant palm attacked, and his body was hit by the strength of the giant palm, and he flew to the side uncontrollably.
barely controlled his body in mid-air, and with the light of his toes on the thick branches, he went into the mountains and forests at once.
"Boom!"
The giant ape fell to the ground, causing violent vibrations, and several thick trees were smashed to pieces, as if the entire mountain forest was rioting at this time.
Qu Tao narrowly avoided the giant palm, and at this time he still had palpitations.
"Isn't this giant ape the beast king here?"
Thinking like this, his speed was not slow, and he was turning around in the woods, hiding with his low body.
However, among the fierce beasts that pursued, many of them had a keen sense of smell and followed his scent.
And ahead, there was also movement at this time, a thick log exploded, and a fierce beast jumped out from behind, but it was a big insect, thicker than the one Qu Tao had killed before.
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